The 51st Grammy Award Nominations

Already on track to have the best-selling album of 2008, rapper Lil Wayne leads the nominations for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards with eight. Other leading artists are Coldplay, who earned seven nominations, and Jay-Z, Ne-Yo and Kanye West, who each scored six.

Here is the list of award nominees that I am excited for. I will indicate which one I want to see win by using italics and the one I think will win by making it bold:

Record of the Year:

Adele - Chasing Pavements
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
M.I.A. - Paper Planes
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Please Read The Letter

Album of the Year:

Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death and all His Friends
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
NeYo - Year of the Gentleman
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
Radiohead - In Rainbows

Song of the Year:

Adele - Chasing Pavements
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Estelle W/ Kanye West - American Boy
Jason Mraz - I'm Yours
Sara Bareilles - Love Song

Best New Artist:

Adele
Duffy
Jonas Brothers
Lady Antebellum
Jazmine Sullivan

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:

Adele - Chasing Pavements
Duffy - Mercy
Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl
Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
Pink - So What
Sara Bareilles - Love Song

Best Pop Collaboration with Vocal

Alicia Keys & John Mayer - Lessons Learned
Jordin Sparks & Chris Brown - No Air
Madonna & Justin Timberlake - 4 Minutes
Rihanna & Maroon5 - If I Never See Your Face Again
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Rich Woman

Best Dance Recording:

Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger
Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor
Lady GaGa - Just Dance
Madonna - Give It 2 Me
Rihanna - Disturbia
Sam Sparro - Black and Gold

Best Electronic/Dance Album:

Brazilian Girls - New York City
Daft Punk - Alive 2007
Cyndi Lauper - Bring Ya To The Brink
Kylie Minogue - X
Moby - Last Night
Robyn - Robyn

For a complete list of Grammy Nominations:

http://content.grammy.com/grammy_awards/51st_show/list.aspx

Watch the Grammy's on February 8, 2009!

Britney's "Circus" On Track 2 Debut At #1

Britney Spears' sixth studio album, "Circus," is on track to debut at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 next week.

Unweighted first-day sales of "Circus" through the close of business yesterday stood at 219,000. Billboard estimates the eight merchants who report to Nielsen SoundScan's Building chart -- Trans World Entertainment, Best Buy, Circuit City, iTunes, Starbucks, Borders, Target and Anderson Merchandisers -- comprise about 80% of all U.S. album sales.

Sources close to the project suggest that "Circus" could move as much as 450,000 in its first week.

If "Circus" arrives atop the tally, it will be Spears' fifth No. 1 album. Among female artists, only four have racked up more chart-toppers: Barbra Streisand (eight), Madonna (seven) and Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson (both with six).

Spears' last release, 2007's "Blackout," bowed at No. 2 with 290,000 behind the debut of Eagles' "Long Road Out of Eden" (711,000).

Santogold 2 Release "Say Aha"

Santogold had chosen the fan-favourite "Say Aha" as the official 3rd single off her self-titled debut album.

"Say Aha" was released in the UK on November 24, 2008 and will see its North American release on December 9, 2008.

The music video for "Say Aha" was filmed on Red Hook, Brooklyn's Van Brunt Street on June 18, 2008. Santogold was photographed on the video set with her extras, riding on bicycles with lifesized loudspeakers.

Let's hope the video is released soon. I am still waiting for "Creator" and "Shove it" to be released. Come on Santogold.

Jay-Z & Santogold Release Joint Single

Jay-Z & Santogold have released a new single "Brooklyn [Go Hard]" which will be the first single from the "Notorious" soundtrack. The track was produced by Kanye West.

The single will be released on December 5, 2008. The soundtrack will be released on January 13, 2009. The track samples Santogold's "Shove It" from her self-titled debut album.

Coldplay & Kylie Release Benefit Single

Coldplay have released a special collaboration with Kylie Minogue for World Aids Day.

The song, entitled 'Lhuna', was recorded at the band's Bakery studios during the production of their latest album 'Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends'.

Coldplay's frontman Chris Martin has previously described the song as being “too sexy” to put on the band’s album.

“At this point we cannot be that sexy, also we haven't quite finished it,” Martin added.

The track is one of a number of songs available as part of a new weekly music service which will benefit HIV-infected people in Africa.

Each issue of RED(WIRE), which will cost $5, includes an exclusive song from a major artist, as well as a musician the charity hopes to promote.

U2 and The Killers and Elton John have also recorded exclusive songs for the service.

The Circus Starring: Britney Spears Tour

Britney Spears has officially announced her 2009 work tour. "The Circus Starring: Britney Spears" will start in New Orleans on March 3, 2009 and has not end date as of yet but currently it is October 24, 2009 in Buenos Aires.

The world tour will see supporting act "The Pussycat Dolls" perform their hits off their new album "Doll Domination."

Britney will be performing tracks off her new album "Circus" as well as "Blackout" which did not get a tour. She will also perform older tracks from her 10 year catalogue.

She will be performing in Toronto on March 19, 2009 at the Air Canada Centre.

Tickets go on sale to the public on December 6, 2008.

Comin 2 CD/DVD - December 2

This Week's New CD Releases:

- Akon - Freedom
- Britney Spears - Circus
- Soundtrack - Cadillac Records

This Week's New DVD Releases:

- The Choronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
- Fly Me To The Moon
- The Longshots
- Saturday Night Live: Complete 4th Season
- Step Brothers
- Wanted
- The X-Files: I Want To Believe

UK Singles Chart - December 1

This Week's Top 10 UK Singles:

-- 01 Take That - Greatest Days
01 02 Beyonce - If I Were A Boy
04 03 T.I. & Rihanna - Live Your Life
03 04 The Killers - Human
05 05 Katy Perry - Hot N Cold
06 06 Aleshia Dixon - The Boy Does Nothing
09 07 Britney Spears - Womanizer
02 08 The X-Factor Finalists - Hero
14 09 Akon - Right Now [Na Na Na]
07 10 Girls Aloud - The Promise

Faves Not in Top 10:

16 12 The Pussycat Dolls - I Hate This Part
12 14 Kanye West - Love Lockdown
11 16 P!nk - So What
10 20 Leona Lewis - Forgive Me
15 22 Duffy - Rain on Your Parade
51 24 Rihanna - Rehab
22 26 The Saturdays - Up
27 28 Rihanna - Disturbia
24 29 Jennifer Hudson - Spotlight
26 32 Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl
33 34 Sugababes - Girls
-- 39 Madonna - Miles Away
-- 45 Kanye West - Heartless
29 46 Robyn - Dream On
31 48 Christina Aguilera - Keeps Gettin Better
82 54 Coldplay - Lost!
39 55 The Pussycat Dolls - When I Grow Up
67 62 Beyonce - Single Ladies [Put A Ring On It]
66 72 Duffy - Mercy
-- 80 Kevin Rudolf [W/ Lil Wayne] - Let It Rock
80 85 M.I.A. - Paper Planes
-- 90 Coldplay - Life In Technicolour II

UK Albums Chart - December 1

This Week's Top 10 UK Albums:

-- 01 The Killers - Day & Age
-- 02 Guns N Roses - Chinese Democracy
-- 03 Rhydian - Rhydian
01 04 Leona Lewis - Spirit
-- 05 Priests - The Priests
03 06 Stereophonics - The Best Of
06 07 Kings of Leon - Only By The Night
08 08 P!NK - Funhouse
05 09 Girls Aloud - Out of Control
07 10 Il Divo - The Promise

Faves Not in Top 10:

-- 11 Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
34 13 Duffy - Rockferry
02 18 Dido - Safe Trip Home
10 21 Beyonce - I Am...Sasha Fierce
27 31 Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad
28 36 Katy Perry - One of the Boys
-- 38 Coldplay - Prospekt's March EP
46 43 Coldplay - Viva La Vida
24 45 Christina Aguilera - A Decade of Hits
30 53 Mariah Carey - The Ballads
43 56 The Pussycat Dolls - Doll Domination
66 69 Sugababes - Catfights & Spotlights
58 78 Adele - 19
73 86 Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
59 88 The Saturdays - Chasing Lights

Box Office Results - November 26 - 30

This Week's Top 10 Films:

-- 01 Four Christmases
01 02 Twilight
03 03 Bolt
02 04 Quantum of Solace
-- 05 Australia
04 06 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
-- 07 The Transporter 3
05 08 Role Models
08 09 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
-- 10 Milk
11 11 Slumdog Millionaire
06 12 Changeling
07 13 High School Musical 3: Senior Year
09 14 Zack & Miri Make A Porno
10 15 The Secret Life of Bees
12 16 Soul Men
13 17 Fireproof
20 18 Happy-Go-Lucky
15 19 Eagle Eye
17 20 Saw 5

Out of the Top 20 This Week:

- Rachel Getting Married
- Beverly Hills Chihuahua
- The Haunting of Molly Hartley
- The Dark Knight